Crawfish prices are climbing just in time for Mother’s Day. Prices rose 50 cents per pound this week as strong holiday demand collides with spotty supply, including fewer basin crawfish than expected.

Baton Rouge posted another solid month of job growth in March, helping push Louisiana’s private-sector employment to a record high. New data from Louisiana Works shows Louisiana’s total private ...

Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race is carving out an unexpected fault line: carbon capture, Louisiana Illuminator writes. State Treasurer John Fleming is making opposition to carbon storage projects a ...

A longtime bridal retailer has rebranded and relocated to one of the Capital Region’s busiest retail corridors, betting on ...

A potential shakeup in U.S. audit oversight could make life easier for public companies and their auditors, The Wall Street Journal writes. A senior SEC official says the Public Company Accounting ...

City Roots Coffee is expanding its Baton Rouge footprint with plans to open a third location in the former Vars Pizza space ...

A once-fringe idea is moving into the mainstream of the AI debate: taxing artificial intelligence itself, The Wall Street Journal writes. The concept, often called a “compute tax,” would place taxes ...

North Carolina-based restaurant chain Cook Out plans to enter the Louisiana market, with its first location in the Capital ...

Despite widespread fears about AI-fueled job losses, overall corporate layoffs are actually down in 2026, The Wall Street Journal writes.  Companies announced roughly 300,000 layoffs through the first ...

Hyundai Steel and Posco’s proposed steel mill in Ascension Parish is moving into a new phase, with the joint venture selecting Italian engineering firm Danieli as its technology partner, Steel Orbis ...

Tourism in the Capital City generated $1.3 billion spent by visitors in 2025, supported more than 42,200 jobs and drew 9.4 ...

After years of investor pressure to prioritize profits over rapid growth, U.S. shale producers are finally signaling they may increase drilling activity—but not enough to recreate the industry’s ...